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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is even taking about this IRL?  I could not care less how/why someone lost weight and I don’t ask and don’t want to hear about it.  Why do you think thin people care how you lost weight? We don’t [/quote]

Ok, do you not notice, with your eyes, your friend who has been fat for several decades, and now has lost 160 pounds???[/quote]

From 2019-2021 I lost 200 pounds. When my doctor -- who would know if I were taking weight loss, or other, drugs and knows the only things I take are a daily multivitamin, Iron supplement, and Vitamin D supplement -- asked me how I did it, I had to shrug. I have been obese my entire life, have tried every single diet, and have been logging my food for over a decade (because food logging does tend to show long term results in terms of weight stabilization), engaged in regular exercise for multiple decades (because a strong, healthy body remains stronger and healthier as one ages, regardless of weight), yadayada. I had previously started taking daily Vitamin D and Iron supplements, due to significantly low levels of both, but he didn't think that could have had the "success" we were seeing with the weight loss. The only other thing I could point at is I had been working hard on improving my sleep, and had some minor success there with less waking throughout the night/better ability to go back to sleep when I woke up at night.

When people ask how I lost weight, because people think they're entitled to know, I tell them I worked on improving my sleep. So I'm sure you're convinced that I took drugs (had I known about them I would have!).

You're so, so, very wrong and judgmental. Most people who have lost noticeable weight have been overweight or obese for a long enough time that we have engaged in multiple activities to lose weight because "it's just CICO!" Which is bullshit.[/quote]

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